In an attempt to rescue poverty-stricken rural women in Malawi, a local Islamic charity is providing entrepreneurship skills to the women regardless of their faith to achieve sustainable solutions to poverty.

Sparking every year's criticism, Ebay auction site has come under fire for offending Muslims by offering burkas as Halloween fancy dress costumes, with anti-Islamophobia group calling for the listing to be removed.

Iran’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Gholam-Hossein Dehqani has said that the spread of violent extremism and takfiri ideology threatens the life and rights of women and girls in the region.

With only 17 percent of British Muslim women playing sport, Muslim Athletes believe that sporty hijab could make a difference and boost the number of Muslim women's participation in sports in the country.

The 52-year-old Ayse Gurcan has become Turkey’s first ever hijab-wearing female minister. She was appointed by Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as one of the members of the interim Cabinet announced on Friday, August 30, and will serve as the minister of family and social policy.

Rejoicing the decision to end hijab ban for basketball players, a Bosnian Muslim player has expressed happiness after receiving approval from the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) to don her hijab during matches.

Famous religious scholar of Iran and grand Shia cleric said that Muslim women should be role model for all so that world can know that Muslim women give a lot of importance to their respect, determination and Islamic identity.

A private school in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh denied entry to a Muslim girl in the classroom for wearing a hijab, with the school's administration claiming the decision was taken not to discriminate between children on the basis of dress.

The ISIS policing unit in Mosul severely disfigured the faces of 15 Iraqi women by pouring acid on them as a form of punishment after the women were caught without their faces being veiled appropriately, by ISIS standards, last weekend.

A 27-year-old Muslim woman Malak Kazan is filing a lawsuit against the Dearborn Heights police department in Michigan, US for forcing her to remove her hijab when she was arrested and booked for a traffic misdemeanor offense last year.

As Russia’s Supreme Court prepares to discuss hijab ban in schools, the country’s grand mufti has sent a letter to President Vladimir Putin, urging him to defend the right of Muslim girls to wear the hijab in schools and universities.